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Dog As Master (Hal McGee)Brash Pussy (1985)

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"What a sound! The primal human rage, the emotion erupting through shards of feedback and heavy distortions must be heard as a stunning precursor to such vocal feedback artists as Masonna and Prurient." --PBK, 2010.
Brash Pussy (1985) is a 30-minute massive sound destruction collage (that prefigured much of today's Noise music) that explodes into chaotic raging frenzied foaming at the mouth lust-rage. Tapes of Turkish music, synthesizers, percussion, one particularly nasty phrase screamed over and over again (an aural ejaculation of lust, inspired by Debbie Jaffe). Noise filth sound damage with a wry grin. A satire of sorts of power electronics and its concomitant obsessions of perversion, hard sex and sodomy. Brash Pussy was originally released on the French power electronics/noise label 3AP/Le Syndicat, Paris in 1985, and later by Sound Of Pig Music in 1986 as a C59. Side B (part 2) is Side A backwards.

Review of Dog As Master: Brash Pussy, by Andrew McIntosh
"Released originally on French label 3AP/Le Syndicat in 1985 (and by Sound Of Pig a year later), this nearly thirty minute opus (side two is basically the same track reversed) is said to be a "satire of sorts of power electronics and its concomitant obsessions of perversion, hard sex and sodomy". The thing with satire, though, is it is in the ears of the listener. To mine, this is a fulsome, well structured and nicely paced rage of early Harsh Noise, composed of distorted synths, tapes, and vocals - a repeated phrase that's difficult to hear but is apparently "an aural ejaculation of lust" to McGee's one time partner and collaborator Debbie Jaffe. Considering this pre-dates a lot of Harsh Noise by at least half a decade it's amazing how full and layered it sounds. Certainly, the sound is not the kind of up-front, crisp harshness many are used to by now, but nor is it totally mired in low fidelity (contrived or otherwise). There are variations of hissing, gurgling, squawking, moaning and roaring sounds that chase each other and yet give each other space. Interestingly, around the twenty minute mark the volume fades down - not sure if that's deliberate but it sounds as if it is - before fading back up again. The last few minutes towards the end generate some very satisfying grinding electronic harshness. Hal's mood, seemingly a combination of lust and hate, is a timeless theme with Power Electronics, and thus this "satire" is closer to the core than perhaps intended. Certainly there's no attempt to be "Power Electronics" with this, that I hear. It's more a serious attempt to really let out some certain aggression, and it's that realistic honesty that comes forward as the main current. But even leaving that aside, this is grandiose, synthesised Noise that can be appreciated and enjoyed on it's own audial level."
-- review published on Special Interests message board.

Brash Pussy is also available in its original audiocassette format:
http://www.halmcgee.com/HalTapesCassetteCatalog.html

I wanna dedicate this special love song to all of the ladies in the audience.

THIS IS NOT A PORNOGRAPHIC WORK - it is considered by many to be a classic example of mid-1980s Industrial Music that prefigures much of today's Noise Music. IT DOES CONTAIN EXPRESSIONS OF ADULT SENSUALITY AND THE LISTENER IS ADVISED TO AVOID LISTENING IF EASILY OFFENDED BY ADULT LANGUAGE (which is actually no worse than in many modern-day rap songs).


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Artist/Composer: Dog As Master (Hal McGee)
Date: 1985
Keywords: Hal McGee; Debbie Jaffe; Viscera; Cause And Effect; cassette; Cassette Culture; DIY; Dog As Master; Master/Slave Relationship; homemade music; experimental; electronic; Moog Rogue; Commodore 64; noise: Moog; Merzbow; power electronics; Whitehouse; Masonna; Prurient

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0


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Brash Pussy Side A 212.7 MB
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17.8 MB
295.9 MB
Brash Pussy Side B 208.1 MB
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297.0 MB
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Brash Pussy front cover, Sound Of Pig/Cause And Effect/HalTapes version 119.3 KB
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Brash Pussy full-size cover, for printing 1.5 MB
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3AP/Le Syndicat label release cover for web viewing 205.9 KB
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badly-cropped full-size scan of the original 3AP/Le Syndicat label release, 1985 668.8 KB
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DogAsMasterBrashPussy.md5 Checksums 106.0 B
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